Playing His beautiful music for all to hear!

The life of a servant of the Most High God is filled with movement and flexibility. Like participating in a beautiful classical piece being orchestrated by a Master Conductor, we each have our part to play. Are you willing to learn how to tune and play your instrument and perk up when it’s your time to join in or do you want to sit on the side lines and just listen missing the opportunity to be a part of something that is bigger than yourself?

4 Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith. 7 If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; 8 if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully 

Rom 12:4-8

I encourage you today to let Him teach you how to turn your life into a beautiful instrument. Find your gifting so that He can mold and create through you His beautiful music. Whether anyone else even sees or hears your part specifically it doesn’t matter because it’s all part of the great piece of music that He has penned in our lives to bring Him glory and reach the world around us, revealing Who He is to others so they may join in His glorious song.

Seek Him with your whole heart and He will show you what to do next. Be responsive when He points to you with His Conductors Baton. Sit up and play your part and watch your life open up for His glorious music to come out. It takes us all working together to bring out the beautiful music He is longing for the world to hear.

Thank You Lord for the opportunity we have to be a part of Your beautiful symphony. Help us to know what our gifts and talents are. May our lives always be willing vessels for You to move in and through to bring out the most amazing music for all to hear. May it all be so that You would be glorified in us and through us this day for the increase of Your Kingdom, in Jesus Name, Amen!

Let Him lead

Living in a whirlwind

There's a side of getting older that I don't think men totally understand I'm afraid. Hot Flashes! My wonderful husband however never complains he just adds another blanket while I have two fans blowing on me and I throw covers off and on all night. I feel like I'm in the middle of a whirlwind and I find comfort. Comfort because I can get some rest while my body battles the signs of age with ways to cool off and stay warm as needed.

This nightly whilrwind makes me think of the recent events in my life. Seeing mom off to Heaven, planning and going through the Celebration of Her Life with Video. Picking up, selling our house and moving in a weekend; as a good steward of God's provision, taking care of trust tasks as the Executor with the Lawyers, Advisors etc. while still trying to work. Through this whilrwind of activity I have been able to find comfort.

Comfort through my Best Friend Jesus urging me on and providing the strength of 10 men to me when I needed it. Comfort from my husband who never stops making sure things are getting done, as we push through as a team. Comfort from my family who has stepped up and pitched in to help us reach our goals. And comfort from my friends, family and church family who have been praying and encouraging us along the way.

When it gets too hot I'm able to stop and pray and get that refreshing from the Lord and the knowledge of knowing my parents and the cloud of witness' are cheeing us on.

There are times when life is a whilrwind and times when it's a calm easy breeze. I'm thankful for both. Through the whirlwind I learn how to press in even more to Jesus and find rest as things fly by. Through the calm I'm able to rest and build up my strength for the next whirlwind of life.

In the late afternoon, the other day, I snuck out and played 9 holes of golf. I had to get away. I didn't have time to warm up and go through my routine. I just walked on and started playing. God provided a partner in an older gentleman that I had played with before. We talked about mom and the whilrwind but we also were able to just hit the ball around, root eachother on and enjoy the few hours of escape. I had some good shots and some not so good. But it didn't matter because I had a few moments of under the covers and warmth while the wind whirled around me.

Do you find yourself in a whirlwind today? Are you struggling between getting blown over and needing to hunker down and get er done. Find comfort my friends in knowing that you are not alone. We all go through stuff, it's how we handle it that can make or break a person. Learn how to take those breaks when needed. Learn how to rely on God's strength when you are at your end. Learn how to reach out to your family and friends to help you make it through. 

Life is not always a calm breeze but if you learn how to surround yourself with ways of dealing with the wind when it picks up you will make it through stronger and more confident than before it started.

Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Matt 19:26